Risk Management & Health Care Regs
Homework Week 4
1. How does OSHA protect health care employees?
OSHA is in place to help with strong reminders of the potential dangers existing in a health care facility. These reminders help health care facilities to function safely, efficiently and for safety and security incidents that seem to create a serious threat to the financial well-being of any health care organization.
2. What should be included in a waste management plan?
• Define and designate those wastes to be considered and handled as infectious material.
• Segregates infectious waste from noninfectious wast.
• Establishes packing standards for waste disposal.
• Sets storage guidelines.
• Specifies disposal methods.
• Details contingency measures for emergency situations.
• Arranges for staff education.
3. What does the employee health department do to protect employees?
They monitor employee’s health y giving periodic health exams for those employees that are exposed to a hazard environment, or giving health exams to those who are returning to work from an illness or injury to protect that employee and others. By monitoring, protecting and maintaining, hazards are controlled, and injuries are avoided or minimized.
4. Describe the functions of facility safety committee.
To set a facility safety plan in which to help to reduce liabilities to health care facilities, these plans are put together by the facility safety committee and the various institutional departments. These plans have to also conform to mandatory government regulations and several other agencies.
5. What is your regulatory agency and what type of license do you have?
6. Why is a national tracking agency for licensed physicians necessary?
The national tracking agency for licensed physicians is necessary to keep track of physicians and any type of complaints or lawsuits that may have been filed on them. This is a sure way for patients to check the physician out before they decide to visit these physicians.
1. How does OSHA protect health care employees?
OSHA is in place to help with strong reminders of the potential dangers existing in a health care facility. These reminders help health care facilities to function safely, efficiently and for safety and security incidents that seem to create a serious threat to the financial well-being of any health care organization.
2. What should be included in a waste management plan?
• Define and designate those wastes to be considered and handled as infectious material.
• Segregates infectious waste from noninfectious wast.
• Establishes packing standards for waste disposal.
• Sets storage guidelines.
• Specifies disposal methods.
• Details contingency measures for emergency situations.
• Arranges for staff education.
3. What does the employee health department do to protect employees?
They monitor employee’s health y giving periodic health exams for those employees that are exposed to a hazard environment, or giving health exams to those who are returning to work from an illness or injury to protect that employee and others. By monitoring, protecting and maintaining, hazards are controlled, and injuries are avoided or minimized.
4. Describe the functions of facility safety committee.
To set a facility safety plan in which to help to reduce liabilities to health care facilities, these plans are put together by the facility safety committee and the various institutional departments. These plans have to also conform to mandatory government regulations and several other agencies.
5. What is your regulatory agency and what type of license do you have?
6. Why is a national tracking agency for licensed physicians necessary?
The national tracking agency for licensed physicians is necessary to keep track of physicians and any type of complaints or lawsuits that may have been filed on them. This is a sure way for patients to check the physician out before they decide to visit these physicians.
References: (Spath, Brown-Spath & Associates Web site, 2002) Kavaler, F. & Spiegel, A. (2003). Risk management in health care institutions: A strategic approach. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett. Wachter RM. Understanding Patient Safety. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2008 (Neurology.org)